John Elden Ekberg, 38, of the Vian area was set to go to trial on Aug. 27 in one of the cases, but instead entered a plea on Friday.
Kyle Waters, Sequoyah County assistant district attorney, said Friday afternoon that Ekberg received 10 years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC). Of that sentence, Ekberg will have to serve 85 percent, Waters said. After the 10-year sentence, Ekberg will then serve a 20-year suspended sentence upon completion of a sex offender program while in DOC custody.
"He'll do about 10 or 11 years (in prison)," Waters said.
Ekberg's sentence will apply to three separate sex crime cases against him.
Ekberg was charged in 2005 with lewd molestation, making lewd proposals to a minor child, attempted delivery of a controlled drug, and exhibition of pornography to a minor after a girl told police that she was babysitting another child when Ekberg assaulted her.
In 2006 and March 2007, Ekberg was charged with various other sex crimes relating two other incidents of alleged abuse.
